Tuesday Times Roundtable series opens discussions of global events

FIU’s Global Learning for Global Citizenship kicks off the spring Tuesday Times Roundtable series for students, faculty and staff on Jan. 12 with a session on alternative energy.

The Tuesday Times Roundtable is a weekly series of open discussions of New York Times articles on global current events. It is co-sponsored by the FIU Student Government Association and The New York Times. FIU students, faculty and staff are invited to join the roundtable every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Graham Center, Room 150. Free lunch is provided. This event counts for CSO points.

The first roundtable discussion is entitled, “Alternative Energy: Who Could Object?” Moderated by Mary Pfeiffer of the Honors College, the discussion will explore issues raised in the Jan. 4, 2010 issue of the New York Times, “For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual.”

Copies of the articles are available at each discussion. Participants need not have read the article beforehand. Participants can access articles prior to the discussions via links on the QEP web site, http://goglobal.fiu.edu.

The Tuesday Times Roundtable series is part of the newly enhanced New York Times Readership Program at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. As part of the SGA-funded readership program, New York Times newspapers are made available to students daily, free of charge, at locations across MMC.